In the recent past, there have been four suicides in Tollywood. On Thursday, a seminar was organized by the West Bengal Women’s Commission and it was decided that a team of psychiatrists will visit the studios to raise awareness of mental health issues. Aside from that, there will be a 24/7 helpline that anyone in distress can call under anonymous terms. sohini haldar, Manali Manisha Dey, Badshah Moitra, Diganta Bagchi, Ambarish Bhattacharya, and many others were present at the seminar. Other than artist forum, East India Film Workers and Technicians Federation, Producers Guild, physiatrists, channel representatives and doctors were also present at the event. Leena Gangopadhyay, chairwoman of the West Bengal Women’s Commission, said: “Nine out of 10 people, if not 10 out of 10, suffer from depression and related mental health issues. From now on, the commission will provide counseling sessions in channels and studios where anyone can seek guidance. It will be attended by representatives of the commission, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts. We are trying to build a 24/7 helpline, which will take some time. But until then, anyone who needs help can call the doctors for guidance on fighting health-related issues. We will provide the doctors’ numbers to everyone. Not only people from the entertainment industry, but anyone from any field can seek this help and the person cannot reveal the identity of it.”
Manali, for her part, said: “It is such a noble initiative. We all go through problems related to mental health. This forum will help us to share the problems and discuss and I am sure that, in the process, it will help to combat the problems related to mental health.”
Recently the actress Indrani Haldar he had organized a program called Unmesh in which he talked about problems related to mental health, stress and depression. “The young generation needs to know how to handle failure and success with equal dignity and, more importantly, with strength. It’s not like I became who I am today overnight, I had a roller coaster ride too. So today’s youth must understand that failure is not the end of the world,” Indrani said.
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